Big Brass Ones

Step 6 Bevel the ends

The ends are right now a hard edge that needs to be beveled. You can use files and sandpaper to do this but since I had this nifty table saw setup, decided to do that. I cut a 45 degree bevel at the 1/16" mark on every face of both sides of the dice.

Again, I setup a stop block jig to hold the brass piece in place and carefully moved it into the spinning table saw blade. My setup had the issue that if I pushed it too far, the blade would hit the C-clamp. Not a good thing. So I watched and pushed very slowly and pulled it back after the bevel was cut.

This time I made sure to have a rubber pad between the C-clamp and the dice piece.

Doing one cut per face per end means twelve cuts per dice, with each one having to be set and clamped and pushed into the blade just far enough but not too far. Be careful to pay attention to what's going on on every placement and cut - it would be easy to get bored and careless when doing a repetitious task like this.

Once this is done it's all over but the polishing.